 | Robin Peel - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 364 pages
...house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better."80 Wharton found an endorsement for a belief in the educative value of suffering in George... | |
 | James Limburg - Religion - 2006 - 156 pages
...to heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made glad. 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. 5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools. 6 For like the crackling... | |
 | Karen R. Tolchin - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 148 pages
...discarded working title, "A Moment's Ornament." Wharton took "The House of Mirth" from Ecclesiastes 7:4: "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."33 Lily craves beauty and mirth, which hastens her own foolish demise, but the novel implicitly... | |
 | Edward F. Mrkvicka Jr., Kelly Helen Mrkvicka - Religion - 2006 - 188 pages
...temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; (II Peter 1:5-6) GOOD TIME, (WORLDLY) The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the nrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters,... | |
 | William Sanday - 2006 - 196 pages
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.... 
